One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Plato
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
If we don't believe in freedom of expression
for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all
too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Richard Armour
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben
3 comments:
Great quotations, and Kennedy's words (along with many of his others)inspired me. He's the reason I registered as a democrat.(In MD ... don't have to pick a party here in GA... everyone here just assumes that if your skin is white, you're a republican.)
Funny, but true: in a nearby county, a former sheriff, who did nothing but cause huge problems, embarrassment, and expensive legal battles when he was in office the last time, and who has recently been indicted on thirty-some felony counts ... was chosen by the voters to do it all over again. Go figure. I guess the incumbent wasn't controversial enough for those folks.
kennedy and Simon are my favorite quotes. History does repeat itself, doesn't it?
So very discouraged by politics. We are in such a mess, I don't know if we can ever dig ourselves out.
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